UPDATED: Tuesday, Jan. 27 / 4:32 a.m. EST -- A Facebook spokeswoman told Mashable that the outage was due to a change to the site's configuration systems, and not a hacker attack. "Earlier this evening many people had trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram. This was not the result of a third party attack but instead occurred after we introduced a change that affected our configuration systems. We moved quickly to fix the problem, and both services are back to 100% for everyone.”, she said.
UPDATED: Tuesday, Jan. 27 / 2:14 a.m. EST -- Facebook, Tinder and Twitter appear to be back to normal after a 40 minute outage and mass freak out.
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Hold your duck faces, sexy messages and food photos. The world is in the middle of an extreme outage.
Facebook, Tinder and Instagram users worldwide are experiencing issues on Tuesday.
Mobile apps and website versions of the sites have gone down for some users, while others have been experiencing intermittent issues since 12:10 a.m. EST, according to downdetector.com, which monitors disruptions to Facebook's services.
It is unclear at this time the reason for the issue. Facebook, which also owns Instagram, said in a statement emailed to Mashable: “We’re aware that many people are currently having trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible.”
We're aware of an outage affecting Instagram and are working on a fix. Thank you for your patience.— Instagram (@instagram) January 27, 2015
Some Tinder users believe the reason the dating app has also crashed is due to its connection to the Facebook app.
One more side effect: Tinder is down cause it's linked to Facebook. Although I don't use it. pic.twitter.com/ThwB38sgqN— Kris Cheng (@krislc) January 27, 2015
In the meantime, there is always Twitter.
Lot of lonely, single people suddenly re-discovering Craigslist now that Tinder and Facebook are down.— Matthew Keys (@MatthewKeysLive) January 27, 2015
Facebook, Instagram and Tinder are all down. The end is near. Twitter is still running so we are safe — Basketball Forever (@Bballforeverfb) January 27, 2015
Facebook, Instagram and Tinder are down. Twitter, let us go, we will finally be free.— kelly oxford (@kellyoxford) January 27, 2015
North Korea at it again. RT @MatthewKeysLive: Facebook, Instagram and Tinder are all down at the moment. Millennials are freaking out.— Buckle Up (@buckleup) January 27, 2015
Facebook is down. Instagram down. NYC trapped in massive blizzard---Time to start eating each other.— Joel McHale (@joelmchale) January 27, 2015